Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
WILL DURANTEducation is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
More Will Durant Quotes
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The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.
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The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It’s the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.
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We are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.
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Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
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Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
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Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
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To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy.
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We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.
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When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
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Inquiry is fatal to certainty.
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Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say.
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The family is the nucleus of civilization.
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